Weight for sinking well casings



Jan. 12 1926. 1,569,000

\ w. H. CATER WEIGHT FOR SINKING WELL GASINGS Filed Oct. '7, 1925 Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

UNITED stares WILLIAM H. CATER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WEIGHT FOR SINKING WELL CASINGS.

To aZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. CATER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, inthe county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Veights for Sink` ing Vell Casings, of which theV following is a specification.

In the sinking of well-casings and similar structures, it is desirable or necessary to weight the top, exposed end thereof to facili tate its downward travel. 1

AIn some instances, it is required that the weight shall be unevenly disposed or arranged on the casing, as for instance, when the latter exhibits a tendency to descend not exactly vertically.

Weights used for this purpose are ordinarily exposed to the weather and are not infre uently subjected to rough treatment.

y present invention aims to provide a new style and type of such weight which may be easily and quickly applied to the well-casing, whose position thereon may be varied or shifted with facility, which will not become damaged or injured in ordinary service, and which may be readily handled and brought to position for Isupport on the casing, etc.

For attainment of these and other desirable objects, I have provided the present desirable and preferred embodiment of the invention, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and throughout the several views of which like reference characters have been employed to designate the same parts.

Those skilled or trained in this art will have no diiiiculty in understanding the struc.- tural and functional advantages of the new weight from this illustration and from the following detailed description.

In the drawing referred to:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the top end of the well-casing or screen equipped with a plurality of the new style of weights; and

Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

By reference t0 this drawing, it will be seen that the top or upper end section of the upright well-casing or screen being sunk or driven down into the earth is Supplied with the reference numeral 11.

Each of the weights of suitable diameter ,omprlss a erliadrieal@ Sheet-metal Shell Q1" Appncation mea cewber 7, 1925. serialy No. 00,950.

casing 12, conveniently open at both ends, and partially lilled with a mixture 413 of comparatively small iron or other heavy members or particles embedded in cem-ent or concrete, whereby the loaded shell thus has substantial and adequate weight to perform its required function.

This encased, hardened mixture may conveniently or appropriately extend to the lower end of the shell as shown, but it terminates short of the upper end thereof leaving a suitable space or cavity.

In such filling, before it hardens or sets,

the headed stem or shank 14;v of an eye-bolt is embedded, the loop oreye 15`of such bolt projecting out of the iilling or charge and being located, however, within the shell in the space thereof at its upper end, all as is clearly shown, whereby the eye of the bolt is not likely to become damaged or injured.

One side-wall of the shell is internally reenforced by a plate 16 riveted thereto, the wall of the shell and such plate having registering holes or apertures `17.

These weights, which can be easily rolled around as required without injury to bring them to suitable position, because they have no projections vsubject to damage, may be lifted into place or into the correct loca-tion by any appropriate hoisting means applied to their eye-bolts.

Such weights are designed to be held or fastened around the top of the casing by hooks 18 taking or extending over the top margin of the casing and into the holes 17, as is fully presented in the drawings, the unfilled or vacant spaces in the tops of the weights receiving or accommodating the inwardly-protruding parts of these sustaining hooks.

If additional weights are required to be applied, they may be hooked on to the other weights already hung on the casing, in which case the cavities in the weights receive both ends of the fastening hooks.

In this way, any reasonable degree of downward pressure may be applied or imposed on the casing by merely attaching additional weights, all of which will be in substantially the same horizontal plane, so that they will not interfere with the descent of the easing,

1. A weight for well-casings and the like, comprising a shell, a -filling ier ioI

shellterinineting short ofrztnvelndof the shell f and` 'containin'g relatively-heeyy, particles and cement, e reenforcing plate inside of said shell, the letterf and seid platebeing epertured in register With' one lanother and opposite the unoconpiedspece of the shell, whereby the apertures'inay 'accommodate n supporting hook with a part, thereof received in the empty portion ot the casing, und an keye-trilt Llizwing Y its shank embedded Y h 11S er@ l, the: empty Space ojf the Shell Wherelwy itisprotected 'by the latter. f

2. A weight-tor u'ellk-,cnsings and the` like, ,comprising n. inetzlilshell, zt fillingxfor Suid shell terminating l,Short oi?, en end of the shell, d4 reenter-Qing plate. for said shell, the

in said Iilling;r Wit letter und sgr-id plate heini;lipertured,in regiister with one another undvopposite the unclefcupiedrspoce ot the lshell, whereby the apertures may accommodate a. supporting yhook Wi h a. Aport thereoreceivedin the empty portion oilgthe casing, and an eyebolt-hnving its shank emloedded in said till-` ingujith its eye in the'emptyA spece of the shell whereby is yprotect'ed the latter.

A Weight for Well-casing@ lsind the like, comprising a, metalshell, a filling for said ehellterminziting `Short of an end thereof, and a reenforciig latter" md said plate being apertured .in register with oneztnother and opposite the unoccupied space of the shell, whereby the aperture may accommodate a supporting hook with it part thereoitI vreceived in the empty portion of the easing.

4. A Weightlfor Well-casings andthe like, comprising it metftlshell, and a filling for seid shell terminfttingshort ofen end thereof, seid shell having an aperture through its ivall opposite the unoccupied. space of, the

shell, Wherebythe aperture nitty accommodate the supporting hookA With 'a pztrt thereof received inthe empty portion ofthe casing. In Witness whereof If. have hereunto set my fhend und` Seal.

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